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The Missouri Compromise
The compromise admitted Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state. -
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The Mexican War
1846-1848 The War had reopened the slavery-extension issue, and it also reinforced the stereotypes in each country which was normalization. -
Compromise of 1850
Five laws was past to deal with the issues of slavery, it was also a way to keep the North and South out of a crisis. -
Fugitive Slave Act of 1850
Was part of the Compromise of 1850 in the Southern slave holding. The act said that if a escaped slave is captured then they will be returned to their masters, and citizens of the free states had to cooperate with the law. -
Bleeding Kansas
1854-1861 Was a political confrontations between the North and the South about whether Kansas should be a slave state or a slave free state. It soon was a proxy war between the North and the South over the issues of Slavery in the U.S. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Was an Act that opened new territories for white male settlers to determine if they would allow slavery, but it soon anti slavery flooded the Territories. -
'Bleeding sumner' Brooks-Sumner fight
Brooks attacked Sumner with a cane, which lead to Brooks getting honor by the south with a House seat. This outraged the north more then the attack itself, and soon lead to many civil battles. -
Dred Scott Decision
Dred Scott lost the decision, but the overall effect made the social gap bigger between the North and South and brought the nation closer to the Civil War. -
John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry, Virginia
John Brown and his men was attempting to start an armed slave revolt by taking a U.S arsenal, but the plan fail and he was captured. -
Election of 1860
Was the presidential election that was the immediate impetus for the start of the Civil War. -
South Carolina secedes from union
Was the first Southern State to be secession, and then it formed the Confederacy. -
Battle of Fort Sumter, 1861
Was the first battle and was the start of the Civil War, which South Carolina said that the U.S Army must Abandon the Charleston Harbor, but they did not lession. -
The Union's "Anaconda Plan"
Was a strategy to subdue the seceding states by cutting off the Southern ports. -
Battle of Antietam
Was the first battle on Union soil and was the bloodiest battle in a day in American history. The battle and the victory gave President Lincoln the confidence to discouraged the British and French governments. -
Emancipation Proclamation
President Lincoln issued an executive order that proclaimed the freedom of slaves in ten states, and it also gave those freed to enrolled into the paid service of U.S forces. -
Battle of Gettysburg
1-3 July: Was the largest number of casualties in the Civil War, and also a turning point in the war because of the great number of people who died. -
Sherman's March to the Sea
November 15 - December 21: A movement that Sherman and his troops destroyed military targets, infrastructures, industry, and civilian property, as well as south economy networks. This was a revolutionary in the center of the civil war. -
Confederate surrender at appomattox court house
This was one of the last battles of the civil war, and the Confederate surrender because the Union had trap them in the court house. After this it triggered a other in the south to surrender, and soon the civil war had ended afterwards.